STOUGHTON – Fire officials are asking local residents to clear snow from hydrants after a snow-covered hydrant hindered the emergency response to a house fire Sunday night. Stoughton Fire Lt. Tim Carroll said the firefighters...

As two high-profile cases get underway in Massachusetts – the Aaron Hernandez trial taking place in Fall River Superior Court and the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial in Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston – there is one very noticeable...

Hezbollah's ambitions are spreading far beyond its Lebanon home as the militant Shiite movement appears increasingly bent on taking on Sunni foes across the Middle East. It has sent thousands of its fighters into Syria and senior military advisers...